Good News

Good News is the debut poetry collection of Yusef Bushara—its title a translation of his last name (بشرى) from Quranic Arabic. At once personal offering and collective invocation, Good News responds to the fate Bushara sees written in his family name: to gather and preserve shrines of delight, love, hope, and promise, and to root these intimately in his Sudanese-Bermudian identity.

Blending poetry and vignette, the collection moves beside idyllic tropes of island life but never settles in their comfort, instead offering a living, breathing Bermuda—one limned in limestone, tender memory, and everyday resistance. These are love letters to the people who shaped him, and to the Bermuda that is and could be. These themes travel with Bushara through the other places he has called home.

Written with clarity, care, and a belief in beauty as resistance, Good News invites readers to whisper their own observations about what is worth remembering, and to find in the mundane a joy worth writing toward.